Love or career?

You get a great job offer – as in the dream job, one you never thought you’d score for at least another 10 years. But, as life would have it, you get the offer of the perfect job in the perfect city with more-than-perfect pay.

There’s just one problem. You have a boyfriend who is equally as perfect- if not more so- than that job. And, for various reasons, he can’t make the move. Now you have to decide, do you go for love, or career?

A reader sent this story from MSN about twenty-somethings making that decision.

5 Responses

Especially as a 20 something, I’d take the job and move. What I wanted in a career I have wanted all of my life – that has never waivered. The same cannot be said of men, the men I dated in my 20′s were not what I wanted in my 30′s…

Well, this means she is getting noticed in her profession. This should be brought immediately to the attention of her current boss. Having her on staff raises the image, profile, and value of the company. She can use the offer to leverage a raise and a faster promotion where she is now. She can then stay with her boyfriend until such time as he can become untethered. If her star continues to rise, she will have no trouble getting ahead wherever she is. Her loyalty will seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Everyone is different and you have to decide what’s right for you.
If pro atheletes, business execs, pro pilots, etc etc etc can have lasting relationships why can’t she? You have to WANT it BAD enough…